Welcome to a special edition of Coffee House Shots for Spectators Daily podcast. We're getting a new

Prime Minister on Tuesday, probably Boris Johnson elected on a promise to take us out of the European Union

on the 31st of October and not a day later. So can you really call this a great betrayal of those who voted for Brexit?

Rod Little thinks so. His book, The Great Betrayal, is in bookshops now, and he joins me to discuss.

Rod, from the title of your book, you don't sound very optimistic about Boris's chances of

honouring his promises. Well, I wasn't very optimistic when I started writing the book.

I'm even less optimistic now since I've heard a number of things from Boris,

most of which say the likes of, we must say no, we must hold up a no deal,

and we must leave by October the 31st and we can't say we will have

no deal and then in the next press saying there is a one in a million chance of no deal.

So the no deal is a paper tiger exactly as it was when Theresa May was trying to afford to deal

with the European Union and was let down by her front

benches. And of course we've also had the MPs voting to ensure that there will be no

prerogation of Parliament. So no, I'm not terribly convinced we're going to get any sort of a deal.

I think it'll probably be Theresa May's deal with lipstick on the pig, as it's

been put to me before now. But the book really is about the failure of the government to see through

the mandate that it was given by the British people on the 23rd of June 2016 by the leave date

of March the 29th.

And more importantly, how the politicians managed to get themselves into that position.

But I have, you know, I've read and edited hundreds of your columns over the years.

You didn't write about it.

I'm sorry. No, it's been a pleasure, a bit hair-raising at times, but still.

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